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"She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself."
"I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."
"Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word."
"Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other."
"The future of rock belongs to women."
"One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female."
"We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence."
"I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain ways, or use film as a way to examine, at that time, my own heterosexual experience. Lives of Performers was the beginning of that kind of investigation. But also, the film was influenced by the aesthetics and structures of experimental film as that was taking place at the same time. Hollis Frampton was a big influence on me at that time."
"When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior."
"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."
"There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism."
"I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness."
"There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability."
"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood."
"Real feminism is spinsterhood."
"I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them."
"We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women."
"I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism."
"Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last."
"I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath."
